skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> DEI as a field is new, and I find they are not given as much slack as non-DEI people figuring out something new and getting slack for taking risks and improving messaging.

I don't think I agree with this. The only reason I think people have such an issue with DEI is that in has permeated much of their academic and professional life (in certain professions). To be honest, if you look back years ago you'd be just as likely to see people complain about the management fad of the day, but the difference with DEI is many people were/are genuinely afraid to speak against it for fear of the negative impact on their careers and lives. "non-DEI people" in new fields are "given more slack" because people just don't care if what these non-DEI folks are doing doesn't affect others' day-to-day lives.

> One thing was the difference between DEI and EDI. It seems EDI (equity, diversity, inclusion) in that order might be an updated revision that can help.

To be honest, the "E" in DEI is always the framing I had the most problems with, because in practice I've often seen it arguing for equality of outcome, vs. equality of opportunity, and this is something I fundamentally disagree with. Yes, I know what equity perhaps is intended to mean, but in practice I've seen examples where if the outcome distribution doesn't exactly match the population at large then some people conclude the process is somehow unfair and needs to be changed. This is not hypothetical, e.g. consider the kerfuffle when ElectronConf was canceled years ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14480868.
Technically speaking, Landauer allows you to pay for extracted data on a bit-for-bit basis -- you don't need to pay for the whole computation as long as you're willing to spend approximately the same amount of time undoing it as you did doing it.
I'm pretty sure he meant chapter 7 (business death), that's the colloquial use of "went out of business".
You're really going to pretend like there have been no socially-engineered cybersecurity attacks in the last 30 years...?

And by the way, stabbings happen all the time, at least 3 per day. Stabbings hurt a few people, cybersecurity incidents can hurt millions.
Turbo Pascal 3.x - under 40K, w/ basic text editor built-in. But could only create .COM files, not .EXEs. Lightning-fast DX.
E.g., https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/kin... (not a death, but you can see the similarity).
Nothing scares me more than people supposing authoritarian efficiency is the dream state.

Open source is better because it's disjointed & chaotic. It's advantage is that it doesn't get stuck, is moving and changing. New ideas happen, are iterated upon. Different people try different things catering to different use cases/scenarios/users.

Open source covering so much terrain so many ways is its strength. It's an enduring base of antifragility, by not being one unsinkable vast idea.
Dreading Wildfire Season
They might not even use blackmail, they might just "help out" in a difficult financial situation. Some people are in severe debt, have a gambling problem, are addicted to expensive drugs, or might need a lot of money for a sick relative. There are many possibilities.

The trick is finding the people that can be compromised.
Is employee ownership the key to building workers' wealth?
I remember seeing a similar study that took place at a busy walk in clinic in an area with a very diverse population. People would come in and get treated by whichever of the doctors on duty that day was available.

The researchers found that when successful treatment would require the patient to follow the doctors instructions after leaving, such as getting a prescription filled, taken the full course of medication, doing or refraining from certain exercises, etc., the patient was more likely to actually do those things the more the doctor was like them in things like race, gender, and ethnicity.
It doesn't have to be completely automated, just enough to make the process of juggling multiple personas a bit smoother.
"Shamelessly stole the title from a hero of mine". Your Shamelessness is all fine. But at first I thought this is a post from Andrej Karpathy. He has one of the best personal brands out there on the internet, while personal brands can't be enforced, this confused me at first.
If I ever make the hop to building a fully custom keyboard I'm going all out with f13-f24, add some repeats of a-f around the number pad to allow fast hex input + ":" for IPv6 input (and put an equals key somewhere in there!), put the numberpad on the left so it's a bit more balanced, move num/caps/scroll lock all up by each other in the corner as small buttons instead of in the body of the keyboard as various sized ones, turn the normal caps lock into a firmware level layer key, and add a key for shortcutting unicode inputs to the right of the 2 function rows.

This was the initial layout I came up with, there are a few things I'd probably change on the hardware layout side but as far as actual keys I usually go with blank caps so that can be changed without much pain so long as it isn't a special shaped key: https://i.imgur.com/zVJWbC9.png
kind of makes sense for americans. I feel like "over throw the government" is a core part of american history and culture.

I'd hope this only applies to the government though and not towards groups of people or ethnicity.
In a similar boat, and I find Marcus weird. Initially I thought he had some valid complaints but the more and more I heard the more he was pushing it into unreasonable territory (maybe he started more rational and went off the deep end ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

This is a problem I have with a lot of people in the AI safety or criticism space. There's a lot to criticize LLMs and AI for. There are a lot of real and concerning things that can cause real world harm, with systems we have __now__. But attacking him or any of the AI doomer/X-risk stuff just muddies the waters and makes those real conversations near impossible to have. Just primes people the wrong way. I'm not a conspiracy theorist but I'm not surprised by people that think these two groups are on the same side. Just seems like a lot of attention seeking and we can fight the hype without creating a different kind of hype...
>the Middle-Eastern unit were literally showing videos demanding further uprising against Israel across the region directly from Hamas

I am failing to see how an article about Russia's war correlates to OP's claim about Al Jazeera showing Hamas videos calling for an uprising. Can we get a direct link to the article that the OP mentioned?
The philosophic burden of proof lies upon those who make all claims, not on those who reject them.
Because employers want employees to have the skills and knowledge to work on problems the employers care about.
Very well, Sears Roebuck is an even better example then even if it did not file for bankruptcy because it went from cornerstone of US culture to practically "went out of business."
I found this a bit more enlightening than that slide deck, although it's a bit old https://xenocara.org/Wayland_on_OpenBSD.html
I don't disagree about Starbucks, but damn it would be a hollow existence as an adult to not be able to enjoy sprinkles.
Meh? It's the sixth largest company in the US; it's not surprising that it can direct 0.1% of US GDP.
I agree with you that both of these things, and more, are important to encourage in society. In fact, I'd even say that literacy has more components than that, like for example understanding the importance of precision in language, like knowing that "effort" is an overly vague and connotationally loaded choice of words when describing the universal benefits of regular exercise. However, I'm not really sure why any this is relevant in the context of this discussion
This is a really tough problem to solve. If the company has amazing leaders, the leaders can correctly judge the depth of the problem and its impact, therefore rewarding the problem solver properly. Unfortunately promotion is really a tool for most leaders to advance their agenda. In a way Google invented this "solving complex problems" just to counter balance the misaligned incentives of the leaders, but to no avail.
"extrapolate from our experience"
"synthesize something coherent"

These are non-scientific concepts. You are basically saying "humans are doing something more, but we can't really explain it".

That assumption is getting weaker by the day. Our entire existence is a single, linear, time sequence data set. Am I "extrapolating from my experience" when I decide to scratch my head? No, I got a sequential data point of an "itch" and my reward programming has learned to output "scratch".
On stress by Gwern.

We are collectively mentally ill
I hope you actually read those articles, because 2 of them are saying Al Jazeera is biased towards Israel - hence why the ban, and not what you are trying to prove.
Wondering why there's no leaked copy of the email -- or was it promulgated by phone calls and announcements in the regular meetings?
Hi - as a counterpoint, I think that inequality is desirable.

In a world with limited resources I think it makes sense to allocate more resources towards people who perform acts for society which require rare skill sets, talent, etc. That might mean more money, it might mean land, it might mean status, or anything else really.

The idea being that those rewards both serve as motivation and also help those people to focus on the good work that they are doing.

You can apply this to basically anything - I think that a more beautiful person, all else being equal, should recieve favourable treatment over an ugly one.

The main downside of such an approach seems to be that, to put it simply, losers get less than winners and to some people that seems unfair. But it's only unfair if the rewards allocated aren't proportional to merit.

I don't really consider this to be controversial to be honest - I think someone who is twice as good as me as a programmer, or contributes twice as much value to the business, or hell, is twice as good at football as me - should receive at least twice as much. That's unequal, but it's also sane and right.
And one of the absolutely solid reasons why I am against investors providing a reason why they turned you down. Most of the time its a fake reason leaving the startups to drop everything and fix this "problem" that never even existed in the first place.
KYC: know your contributor
Blizzards, earthquakes, mudslides, and forest fires don't take out FM radio EAS (many of these don't even take out cell phone EAS...), so why are you listing them as reasons AM in particular is needed? Perhaps was I not clear EAS already uses more than AM?

The only time AM is relevant is when the _ENTIRE_ radio communication infrastructure except AM is unusable due to the disaster, such as after a hurricane or in nuclear war, and in those cases you don't urgently need the alert while driving down the highway.

If you can't defend new regulation as worthwhile beyond "we, by happenstance, typically had it before so we should keep doing that" then you've failed to defend the new regulation. It either makes sense and should be done properly because of actual safety reasons or it isn't worth doing half assed and inconveniently just because it used to be a possibility.

I'm a huge fan of regulation, especially around safety, but only when it targets the actual goal directly. If the goal is "you must guarantee that a vehicle is sold with a way to receive EAS communications from at least x miles away" then make that the regulation and let manufacturers choose if that's a built in AM radio or not, don't just regulate "all cars must have AM radio" as you've just locked things into being the low quality solution until it becomes a big enough issue to actually go make a whole new federal law about it.
Why do people need goals to do things? Having a goal is falsely valued.
Not a biologist so not sure if this is reasonable, but seems it might be cool to compare the evolution of them in space and on earth and then try to understand what stressors caused what adaptations? Maybe it could be an interesting way to understand the evolutionary process more. Either way, I suppose we need to figure this stuff out if we're going to become multiplanetary. Super cool research, here is the paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10960378/pdf/40...
Why do you think choices in hiring are the only way to ameliorate current conditions?
The silly AI chatbots are what have been built with their existing compute. This spending is for bigger and even more powerful models.
You can always use the "we have no idea" argument because you can't prove something doesn't exist. Go find evidence. It's been over a month since xz and thus far we have zero additional incidents. And if you look at the specifics of xz attack: that wouldn't work for most projects because most don't have binary test files.
Or rather some legal fiction that you can pretend is 100%. You can never achieve real 100% in practice after all. Eg the random initialisation of weights might already encode all the 'bad' stuff you don't want. Extremely unlikely, but not strictly 0% unlikely.

The law cuts off at some point, and declares it 100%.
I modeled part of my company's business problem as a MAB problem and saved my company 10% off their biggest cost and, just as important, showcased an automated truth signal that helped us understand what was, and wasn't, working in several of our features. Like all tools, finding the right place to use RL concepts is a big deal. I think one thing that is often missed in a classroom setting is pushing more real world examples of where powerful ideas can be used. Talking about optimal policies is great, but if you don't help people understand where those ideas can be applied then it is just a bunch of fun math. (which is often a good enough reason on its own :)
oblig. perverse incentive https://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html
You can always use this line because you can never prove something doesn't exist. Go find evidence. It's been over a month.
Why couldn't you just pay them more, if there's extra money that could be going to workers?
I agree with most of your thinking, although I switched a while ago from URA to URNM. I feel like your explanation of the difference understates the extent that URA is reliant on Cameco (25%) and also doesn't mention that it also invests in general industrial companies not specific to uranium (Mitsubishi, Cheil, Doosan, Hyundai, Itochu, etc).

By contrast, URNM (so far as I can tell) is specific to uranium. On the bright side, being diversified helps to stabilize the fund and makes it less dependent on the uranium market. On the other side, if the reason you are investing is because you are bullish on the future of uranium, you are getting a lot of other stuff that has only a loose correlation with increased uranium demand.

There's nothing wrong with investing in these other industrial companies, but my thought was that I was better off with a smaller investment in URNM with my diversification happening elsewhere and consciously rather than automatically. I'd suggest you look closely at the holding list of URA to be sure its holdings match your objectives. NLR might also be worth considering instead, although I personally decided I didn't want the small direct China exposure.

Edit: To be clear, I have a much smaller percentage in URNM than you have in URA. I agree with you directionally, but lack your boldness.
Generative AI will be designing new drugs on its own in near future
The CIA's former master of disguise tells her story
Back many years ago, we were driving down a two lane highway in a good old Air Force blue Dodge van. Loaded with maybe 8 airmen. Down the center of the road on the yellow line were flexible bollards every couple feet. The area was under construction and the lanes were narrow, and the bollards were to keep drivers alert and in their lane, I guess.

Anyway. Idly chatting with the driver, I asked 'I wonder how sturdy those are, what happens if someone hits them?' A minute or two later, when there was no oncoming traffic, the driver jerked the wheel and put the van in the center of the road. BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM at 60 mph. Then back in our lane, glances in the rearview mirror, and calmly announces that they go down and stay down.

I nearly crapped myself laughing. What a crazy SOB. Still makes me chuckle at the memory, 30 years later.

There is no point to that story, really, although perhaps that modern flexible bollards like the ones you link to claim to stand back up if they get hit. But do they, if the car is doing 60 mph? Hmmm. Lucky for those bollards, I don't drive a big ugly blue Air Force van. And I'm too much of a rule follower.
Dissecting 'architecting for fast, sustainable flow'
Well yes, sounds great, but it doesn't really address the security problem. Now you've just got the bad guys getting two paychecks instead of one and the good guys getting one paycheck instead of zero.
Also: "Former CIA Operative Explains How Spies Use Disguises" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JASUsVY5YJ8
Scoring framework: https://securityscorecards.dev/

Code: https://github.com/ossf/scorecard

April 2024 ranking of OSS projects by criticality, 100MB CSV: https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/ossf-criticality-sc...
Could Flying Drones Save Lives on Mount Everest?
yep.

same with npm. i publish releases of my OSS libs to npm, but there's no guarantee that what is uploaded is what you see on github. that's a lot of trust you have to put into my opsec, etc. not good.
That's actually less than the price they fetch during this shortage:

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/14/nvidias-h100-ai-chips-sellin...

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...

However, they are likely vastly cheaper in bulk at MSRP, that's true. And Meta apparently got them before the AI hype cycle.
> That's just incredible, and not a good thing.

Why? It shows that they were willing to spend lots of resources on something risky. That's how you get progress. Risky things don't always pan out (almost by definition).
This is about "social engineering takeovers of open source projects", not "socially-engineered cybersecurity attack", which is much much broader.

I've been pretty clued up on open source for the last 20 years, and I don't really recall any other similar incidents other than the two I mentioned. I tried to find other examples a few weeks ago and came up empty-handed. It's certainly not common. So please do post specifics if you know of additional incidents, because from what I can see, it's exceedingly rare.
https://gwern.net/stress
Years ago, my team at AWS considered writing our own declarative language to configure EC2 instances which would replace some old functionality within CloudFormation (cfn-init) until I pointed out you could achieve the same thing with our existing features (State Manager Ansible playbooks)
Free speech in the US is not limited to citizens. The first amendment reads “Congress shall make no law”. It doesn’t say anything about citizens. That’s a complete misunderstanding of the first amendment.
I was just there. Easy train ride from London. Enthusiasts can spend 6 hours, or more there. Not a great family destination, though. Sometimes you have to wait hours for your tour start. During that time you've burned all the good will with the family as you've briskly seen all the stuff the tour will now show you.

I will go back on my own one day.
agree, but it's not really sarcasm/irony. it's more derision/snobbery. this isn't about whether one agrees or disagrees with the author's "more bollards better" platform, but the entire framing is off-putting.
I don't think Windows Phone 7+ included anything wild on the baseband. It ran on qualcomm chipsets, and I suspect it was just using their modems as-is.

Use an approved modem blob and you can connect. Easy peasey. VoLTE makes it a bit trickier, but not that much.

I mean, yeah, it won't ever be popular. If it's open source, there's no way to sell user data to subsidize the price. And who wants to pay full freight for a phone that probably won't ever fully work... I think I learned my lesson with OpenMoko...

I enjoyed Windows Phone, but I don't see how it would survive without big pockets and a dedicated, focused, and engaged team that can m move mountains. Big pockets alone weren't enough. Good hardware wasn't enough. Microsoft needed to have delivered on their promise of all WP8 devices getting an upgrade to WM10, and WM10 needed to be good on release. Incidentally, what I think was the final build for Lumia 640 was a lot better than the first build; if the first build was that good, the story may have ended differently. Mobile Edge was still garbage on that phone though; Mobile IE was ugly, but Mobile Edge put a queue between the UI and the engine, which meant when the engine was spinning on some page it could barely handle, you couldn't stop it... All your UI commands would be queued up and played later when the engine had finished whatever it was doing... Unless the watchdog timed out and the whole phone rebooted.
The important thing to remember is that dollars are always lives, but there are finite resources available. If we can save more lives spending the same money on medical research or emissions reductions or housing construction[1] then we should do that instead.

[1] Keep in mind that a single new housing unit that reduces the owner's commute by 40 miles/day is good for eliminating more than half a million vehicle miles, in addition to all of its other benefits.
And that's what Wayland wants.

"We will only develop for Linux if you want it do it yourself" is the vibe I get from the Wayland team.

Why should FreeBSD be the ones who have to develop? The stubbornness of Linux users.
TL;DR: If more folks feel this way, please upvote this comment: I'll be happy to take down this post, change the title, and either re-post it or just don't - the GitHub repo is out there - that that should be more than enough. Sorry again for the confusion (I just upvoted it).

I am deeply sorry about the confusion. And the last thing I intended was to grab any attention away from Andrej, and / or being confused with him.

I tried to find a way to edit the post title, but I couldn't find one. Is there just a limited time window to do that? If you know how to do it, I'd be happy to edit it right away in case.

I didn't even think this post would get any attention at all - it is my first post indeed here, and I really did it just b/c if anybody could use this project to learn RL I was happy to share.
When did Israel make controversial, disputed or downright false claims illegal?

The current prime minister and the IDF make controversial, disputed and downright false claims as well.
The solution to a problem can be simple.

But now we want other things. e.g. car=transport, then: speed, efficiency, style, non-polluting, safety, price, a/c, touchscreens, self-driving etc.

The boundless complexity of human desire.
Tech layoffs cross 70k in April 2024
Some complexity is inherent to the problem, but most seems to be incidentally introduced by the realities of deployment (non-functional), configuration (functional) and chaos monkeys (users). There is a particular 'breed' of incidental complexity I see with space cadets and front end developers for sure. Complexity is complex lol.
> The U.S. Constitution provides rights for citizens to have free speech — not non-citizens.

This is basically untrue. At times, the court has applied different standards to speech by residents, but this does not mean that they would allow the government to apply any kind of limit on their speech, or indeed, more than very narrow ones.

In addition, the first amendment also covers the right to receive information.

Foreign ownership rules are not the same thing as the EU banning RT through legal means, or Israel shutting down Al-Jazeera and instituting internet blocks. You will notice that RT is not blocked in the US, nor is any other foreign media company.